Arlovski Descends on Team Greg Jackson

Minority report: I still think Andrei
Arlovski is one of the most dangerous heavyweights in the
sport. Slow down the fight footage of the Fedor
Emelianenko bout and you can just about make out the slightest
bit of frustration on Emelianenko’s face. (Could’ve been gas. I’m
open to other theories.)

After getting knocked out by both Emelianenko and Brett
Rogers, Arlovski is taking a ten-day sabbatical from Chicago to
train with Greg Jackson in New Mexico: the first-day footage
is now a
YouTube destination. See Andrei close the distance against a
heavy bag with an alarming proximity to a brick wall; see Andrei
roll with Joe
Stevenson; see Andrei collapse into a seriously dilapidated
hotel room bed, surrounded by bags of ice, and about to be
disappointed by Albuquerque’s pathetic cable line-up.

It’s a good move, though Jackson, for whatever reason, has never
turned out a heavyweight who’s made as much of an impression as
lighter-weight fighters like Rashad
Evans, Keith
Jardine, or Nate
Marquardt. But there’s a lot of malleable clay in Arlovski, who
is still very capable of hurting a lot of people.